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Computer and A/V Expertise Requested

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alpentalik
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My roomate recently purchased a television for our humble abode, but it is positioned in a way that i cannot see it while sitting at my desk. However, I have hooked it up to my computer with an S-Video cable. BUT, two things are not working as I would like them to: First off, for some reason when I play videos on my computer and have the TV in S-Video mode, everything on my computer shows up on the screen except the video, instead there is just a blank screen. I'm not sure exactly what to do, it does everything fine except for that. Also, because I cannot see the TV from my desk I want to be able to watch it on my computer via the S-Video cable/port, but I don't know how to enable this specific mode. Thanks for your help and a premptory fuck you baby asshole tasting bitch for those who do anything otherwise.


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Jan 22 2003 4:24AM
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andyrightcoast
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The reason that movies won't display on your TV is because the TV is not set as the primary monitor, and you don't want to enable the TV as the primary monitor. You might be able to watch movies if you enable the TV as a secondary monitor, and not a clone copy of your monitor desktop. Kinda like using it as a second monitor.

The reason you can't watch TV on the computer w/ the S-Video cable is that the video card you have it plugged into is output only. You need a seperate TV card to do video input.

If you tell me what video card it is I can help you setup what you need, in regards to programs and drivers.
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Jan 22 2003 10:47AM
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yeti
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how come Lord_piot can use twin view on his geforce2mx and still watch movies? All it's doing is cloning the screen...

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Jan 22 2003 11:01AM
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Lord_Piot
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yes my mx400 was able to do this, as well as my ti-4200

what video card are you using.
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Jan 22 2003 12:52PM
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andyrightcoast
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It might only be ATi cards, thats what I use, my 9000Pro, my 7000Pro and my friends 9500Pro all do the same thing, and using both Windows built in shit and the Hydravision software available on ATi's site, and also using several versions of the ATi catalyst drivers. So I dunno, mabye only nVIDIA cards do it. ATi has better 2d/video quality anyways :-)... Oh yeah, and its because the videos are being played as an overlay...

-Andy

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Jan 22 2003 1:14PM
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Rapt0r
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yeah, you need an input.

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Jan 22 2003 5:14PM
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Maximumsushi
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You need to buy a TV tuner card to get input. I don't think there is an Svideo Tuner card yet, but I may be wrong.
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Jan 22 2003 6:24PM
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andyrightcoast
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Most TV Tuner cards have S-Video input... Mine does..

Mine has a S-Video input, a composite input, an RF tuner, and an audio output to attach to the soundcard input. And my TV Tuner card is a budget card.

-Andy

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Jan 22 2003 7:32PM
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aggro_sk8
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why do you even need a desk? do what i do, sit on the couch in front of the tv with all my work on my lap, a lot cheaper and easier

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Jan 22 2003 10:23PM
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andyrightcoast
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Dude, did you even read past his first sentence? He's talking about while hes at his computer. Christ some people are dumb.

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Jan 22 2003 10:28PM
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alpentalik
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haha, we don't even have a couch...we have a wood chair, but id rahter jump off of a diving board into a pool with out water butt first than sit there for five minutes...so i guess i can screw the whole watching tv on my comp idea, no way i can afford a new card, unless mine is already compatible, i don't know what it is exactly, but its just the factory card that comes with campaq presario 1500 laptops...anyone know what they run? any how...how do i set up the tv as my secondary monitor?


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Jan 23 2003 5:14PM
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andyrightcoast
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Right click on the desktop, go to the settings tab, click the box that has the number 2 in it, and check 'enable monitor for windows desktop' or whatever it is... that should do it. At least thats how its worked on like 99% of other computers w/ s-video out that I know of... and since its a laptop, you cant really add a tv-tuner card to it, unless you can buy a PCMCIA one...

-Andy

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Jan 23 2003 7:33PM
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Jan 23 2003 11:45PM
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Maximumsushi
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Oh, well I must have a really old card then. All I have is A coaxial video in, a aux sound in and a cable in.
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Jan 24 2003 1:31AM
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